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Nothing is more deadly to achievement than the belief that effort will not be rewarded, that the world is a bleak and discriminatory place in which only the predatory and the specially preferred can get ahead.

George Gilder

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George Gilder
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 29
Economist
Philosopher
Writer
New York City
New York
Belief
Rewarded
Place
Bleak
Nothing
Preferred
World
Deadly
Ahead
Management
Discriminatory
Achievement
Specially
Effort
Predatory

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